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Ethan Mollick rejects past speculation about GPT-4’s lead and LLM limits

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Ethan Mollick said OpenAI had no unique secret method behind GPT-4’s lead and that the model did not represent the limit of what large language models could achieve. He recalled that less than three years ago, GPT-4 had held the position of the world’s best model for a year, prompting speculation about whether OpenAI possessed a special method or whether LLM performance had reached its ceiling. Mollick’s retrospective answer to both questions was “no.”

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    Ethan Mollick recalls speculation about GPT-4’s lead and the limits of LLMs

    Less than three years ago, GPT-4 was the best model in the world, as it had been for a year, and we were all speculating whether there was some unique secret method that OpenAI had or whether GPT-4 was just as good as LLMs would ever get. (The answer to both questions was "no") https://t.co/SXUkpgGEQc

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